Fresh Oil From Heaven by Ed Dufresne

Author:Ed Dufresne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian Life, Christianity, Religion, Fundamentalism, General, History
ISBN: 9780940763067
Publisher: Ed DuFresne Ministries
Published: 1986-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The Double Portion

Do you know the story of Elisha and Elijah? Elisha was at the right place at the right time when Elijah's mantle fell.

The mantle doesn't automatically fall on a man of God just because his dad's a prophet. If the son is goofing off, doing his own thing, the mantle won't fall on him when his dad goes home to be with the Lord.

I believe you have to be in the right position with God, and you have to want that anointing more than anything in the world. Elisha wanted it that much, because he refused to leave Elijah. (He wouldn't even go to the local Bible school.)

When I was a young Christian, I couldn't figure this out. Then I started getting revelation knowledge about the relationship of Elijah and Elisha. I came to realize that you can receive a mantle through association.

I once worked alongside a pastor for five years, doing everything I could find to do—from janitor work to construction—in the ministry of helps. I didn't know then that I was called to be a pastor. I even told God that I wasn't a pastor. I considered myself to be strictly in the ministry of helps.

I always wondered where I got the anointing to be a pastor. The other day God said to me, "Because you helped that man build his church, and you were around him, the anointing to be a pastor came on you by association."

Some of you are running after a big anointing, and you're missing the whole thing. You should determine in your heart, "Bless God, I'm going to stick with this pastor and this church." You'll be surprised. One day God will look down and say, "I can trust him. I'll put the same anointing on him."

There's something wonderful about being around men of God, where the anointing is. I'm not lifting up the flesh by stating this; I'm simply recognizing the anointing of the Spirit of God on them.

Later, when I met men of God, the Lord told me to stay close to these men, so I started working with them. Then I got around Brother Hagin, and some of his anointing rubbed off on me.

Kenneth Hagin Jr. says that when I start flowing in the Holy Ghost, my ministry is similar to that of his father, Kenneth E. Hagin. Why? Because years ago in a meeting in Hawaii, Brother Hagin laid hands on me, and something was imparted to me; a stronger anointing came upon me. You see, a mantle can also be imparted by the laying on of hands.

Don't Get Sidetracked

And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him. As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.

So they went down to Bethel.

2 Kings 2:1,2

When you get an opportunity, study and meditate on this chapter of Second Kings.

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